The owl is a very useful scout and one of the best familiar choices from a mechanical standpoint, but it isn't as broken as many would often lead you to believe. If your DM houserules that the owl acts on your turn... then expect your owl to get killed a lot because it will be really good.

You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: Bat, Cat, Frog, Hawk, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Rat, Raven, Spider, Weasel, or another Beast that has a Challenge Rating

Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast. Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands.

Giant owls often befriend fey and other sylvan creatures and are guardians of their woodland realms. Monster Tags: Misc Creature Habitat: Arctic Forest Hill

Feb 25, 2021 · Celestials typically stay in the "Lawful Good" realm of morality (some are evil, but those are mostly constrained to non Forgotten Realms Settings) and occupy the upper planes. Fey are most often either neutral, chaotic, or both, run the gamut from good to evil, and inhabit the Feywild, an "alternate" version of the material plane.

Dec 6, 2021 · Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos introduces the owlin, a new race of owl-like humanoids, to the Dungeons & Dragons multiverse. Distant descendants of giant owls from the Feywild, these fluffy fliers make for the perfect Strixhaven bookworms.

Sep 15, 2022 · When the Wild Companion says "When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is a fey instead of a beast." This tells us that a Wild Companion is always a Fey, and not a Celestial or Fiend like a normal familiar might be.

Jul 16, 2021 · Seelie and unseelie fey. Seelie and unseelie do not directly correlate with good and evil, though many mortals make that equation. Many seelie fey are good, and many unseelie are evil, but their opposition to each other stems from their …

Feb 15, 2022 · Perhaps there is a Fey creature who doesn't like the forest spirit or perhaps the fey creature is actually behind the whole thing and set up the killing to get the owlin to slay for the forest creature so the fey being can take their land.

Jan 15, 2025 · They also often take on the role of emissary between Fey rulers and outsiders that happen upon their territory. Centaur wardens have a CR of 7, and they forgo the Pikes and Longbows of centaur troopers in favor of attacks imbued with natural forces.